Oyewale noted that the convict forged and sold a food collection card, in the name of a non-governmental organisation, to 194 widows for N781,800 and failed to deliver food items to them, leading to her arrest and arraignment.
Disclosing this in Abuja yesterday, EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno High Court, on Tuesday, May 16, 2020, sentenced Mohammed 16 years.
According to Oyewale, the Maiduguri Zonal office of the EFCC arraigned the convict before Justice Fadawu on a two count-charge of obtaining by false pretence and other fraud-related offences. Oyewale noted that the convict forged and sold a food collection card, in the name of a non-governmental organisation , to 194 widows for N781,800 and failed to deliver food items to them, leading to her arrest and arraignment.
Count one of the charge read: “That you, Ramat Mohammed , sometime in December 2018 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N520,000 from 40 women of Fissabi-lillah Islamic School, under the false pretence that the entire sum represent payments for registration/eligibility for a programme by a Non-Governmental Organisation , Action Against Hunger at Auno Town of Konduga Council, Borno State, which payment will...
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